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 August, 2008

MySpace Marketing Teams SEO Training

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With your hosts«

Natasha Robinson Sr. Manager, SEO

Ninja Specialty: MySpace Site-wideSEO

NRobinson@MySpace.com

Laura Coltrin Manager, SEO

Ninja Specialty: MySpace ChannelsSEO

LColtrin@MySpace.com

Ken Yamada Manager, SEO

Ninja Specialty: MySpace CustomCommunities SEO, Shelfy & SEO Tools

Kyamada@MySpace.c

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Agenda

How to think like an SEO

Linking

Copy and SEO

SEO Processes

Quiz

Questions and Answers

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Google¶s Universal Search

Images

News

Video

Books

 Web Pages

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How Search Engines Work

Crawl Index Rank

How will ROBOTS find

your Page?

Can they see the

content on the page??

Right Keywords used

in the right places?

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Google¶s Ranking Algorithm Revealed

 Content on the Page

Links

 Power of MySpace.com

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Google¶s Ranking Algorithm Revealed

 Content on the Page

Links

 Power of MySpace.com

1.Find your page

2.Rank your page

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SEO: Linking

Links are the #1 SEO Consideration.

New URLs = Little to Zero Links- strategy: How to get more links?

Links: What type of links?- Search Engine Robots cannot follow links in Flash or Javascript.

- Image Links are not optimal

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Strategy: How to Get Links

Sponsors / Partners

Get Static HTML Links from whoever will give it to you.

Make sure the links are Specifically, http://www.myspace.com/<VANITY>

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Strategy: How to Get Links>

Online Press Releases

Put Keywords in your Press Releases

Use HyperLinks on your keywords

Use Engine-trusted News Sources

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Strategy: How to Get Links

Widgets and Bookmarking

Caution on Flash Widgets:

Links within Flash Widgets may not

be f ound by spiders.

Find ways f or users to take a link with

them, as they embed.

MySpace Brand Community

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Google¶s Ranking Algorithm Revealed

 Content on the Page

Links

 Power of MySpace.com

1.K

eywo

rds2.Content

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Keywords:

Pick the Right Keywords

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Applications

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SEO: Applying the Keywords on the Page

Includes«

Page Title

Meta Description

Headings <H1>,

<H2>

<Body>

Image ALT

1. Pick a THEME: One Keyword Phrase

2. Use it consistently Title & H1

3. Use Image ALT

4. Insert at least 400 words of Copy

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On-Site SEO : META Description Tag 

META descriptions affect Search Engine click-through rates

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How to Write Good Page Title and

Description

Title Requirements:

6-7 Words, 65 Characters Max

Description Requirements:

Limit to 150 characters inc. spaces

Use action ver bs that entice visitor to click!

Rule of Thumb:

Start your sentences with the Theme Keyword

as much as possible.

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The Power of MySpace.com«

Moved fr om Position 50 to Position 1.

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Secret Standup

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Major On-the-page SEO Challenges

at MySpace

Flash

Putting content inside of Flash

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JavaScript

Flash using JS, Modules with Tabbed

Navigation.

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Spiders are not Human Users

Cannot see: ± text in images,

 ± text in Flash,

 ± text in Javascript,

 ± text in AJAX,

 ±Image swaps,

 ± Image maps,

 ± buttons, cookies,

 ± Spiders can¶t submit login f orms,

 ±perf orm actions (push submitbuttons),

 ± see video or hear audio.

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1. Create Page Copy with Keywords.

2. Make sure the Copy you create on the page

can be read by Search Engine Spiders

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Key Considerations for SEO

1 Concept Creation: KW Research Concept Creation: KW Research

2 Pick the URL, put in a placeholder  Pick the URL, put in a placeholder 

3 Get links Get links

4 QA f or SEO during Design QA f or SEO during Design

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Success Stories:

SuperBowl 2008

· Search Engines drove 589,000

visitors to the SuperBowl

Community

· Traffic from Search was the #2

acquisition source of traffic to

the Superbowl Community

driving more traffic than traffic

from MySpace

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Case Studies

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Marketing Design SEO Processes

Marketing > Content > Design

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Concept Creation - Marketing creates new campaign.

Marketing works with SEO to negotiate external links, URL options, andbranding considerations.

2 Wireframe/Mocks - Campaign moves to content teams.

Content works with SEO to optimize written HTML.

3 Implementation- Design team builds community.

Design works with SEO to optimize page elements.

4 Reporting ± SEO team reports results acr oss MySpace teams.

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Top things for you to remember ± Quick

Review:

The # 1 factor in SEO is__________.META descriptions affect Search

Engine_________________.

Every page on the site must have a unique ___________________.

Search Engines pay attention to the first

 _________. in the Title.The same or similar text used within theTitle Tag should be used

 ___________.

For image optimization, __________displays text associated with an image

on a web pageAnchor text is the text which is ________ toanother page or location.

Try to keep a minimum of 

 ____________________ you want torank well for.

the Title Tag.

Click-thr ough rates

Title and Description tag

6-7 w

ords

In the H1 tag.the alt tag.

hyperlinked

400 words on each page

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Questions?

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History: The Development of 

Popular Search Engines

1996: Yahoo! HotBot Alta Vista

 Pioneered the

Directory based

Search Engines

 Pioneered the

Natural Language

Query Technology

 Pioneered the

Robust Crawling

and Indexing

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The Next Evolution:

Google & PageRank

 Br ought Relevancy and

Index to new level